The Lunchbox

The Lunchbox is a 2013 Indian epistolary romantic film written and directed by Ritesh Batra, and produced by Guneet Monga, Anurag Kashyap, and Arun Rangachari. The film was jointly produced by various studios including DAR motion pictures, UTV Motion Pictures, Dharma Productions, Sikhya Entertainment, NFDC India, ROH Films Germany, ASAP Films France, and the Cine Mosaic United States. It stars Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in lead roles. The film was screened at International Critics Week at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, and later won the Critics Week Viewers Choice Award also known as Grand Rail dOr. It was shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was released in India onSeptember 2013. The film was a boxoffice success.

Saajan Fernandes is a widower, about to retire from his job as an accountant. Ila is a young wife seeking her husbands attention, looking for ways to put romance back into her marriage, one of which is to cook delicious food for him. Through a rare mixup of the famous dabbawalas a complicated system that picks up and delivers lunches from restaurants or homes to people at work of Mumbai, the lunchbox Ila prepares for her husband gets delivered, instead, to Saajan. Ila eventually realizes the mistake and with the advice of her neighbor aunty living in the apartment above her, writes a letter to Saajan about the mix up and places it in the lunchbox along with her husbands favorite meal the next day.An exchange of the messages sent back and forth with the lunches ignites a friendship between the two, as they share memories and events of their own individual lives. At work, Saajan is tasked with training his replacement, Shaikh, an orphan whose incompetence initially annoys Saajan, who is already socially distant since his wifes death. Saajan and Shaikh gradually get to know each other better and strike a close friendship as well. At one point, Saajan saves Shaikhs job by covering for his blatant mistakes on pay orders, and he also becomes his best man at his wedding. ........

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